> As my subject line indicates, I'm getting the diagnostic:
>
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
>
> when I try to boot up with my home grown kernel. I've tried several
> things with lilo on this, but I'm stumped. rdev indicates the root
> partition is /dev/hda1, which is what I expect, and I seem to have good
> lilo entries, as follows:
>
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> read-only
> initrd=/boot/initrd
>
> and in fact with the dist kernel this lilo entry works fine, but with
> the one I get with make bzImage I get stuck on boot as stated. Can
> someone point me to a specific doc to read on this problem, or is my
> mistake obvious?
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The mistake is not obvious to me.
Just guessing:
(1) Are you sure you need the initrd line? Do you actually have /boot/initrd?
This line is not shown in /usr/share/doc/lilo/examples/conf.sample.
(2) Have you run lilo after you installed the new kernel and before you
rebooted?
(3) Does the fs driver for the root device in the new kernel compiled as a
module?
(4) Could it be that you have not installed the new kernel properly? One way to
avoid this is to use Debian kernel-package.
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